Walt Whitman—The Civil War’s One-Man Sanitary Commission
•May 7, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
During the American Civil War, great American poet Walt Whitman was a sort of one-man Sanitary Commission—not that he would have put it that way. More »
•May 7, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
During the American Civil War, great American poet Walt Whitman was a sort of one-man Sanitary Commission—not that he would have put it that way. More »
•January 22, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
John Maxwell placed a bomb aboard a cargo ship at City Point in August 1864 in a desperate bid to slow the flow of supplies to Union troops at Petersburg. More »
•January 20, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
Although the craft of photography was still in its infancy, battlefield photographers managed to make lasting record of the conflict. More »
•December 28, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
Extreme homesickness, termed “nostalgia” during the Civil War, often killed more soldiers than enemy bullets. More »
•December 19, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
Walt Whitman went to Washington in 1863 searching for his brother. He stayed throughout the war visiting wounded soldiers at military hospitals. More »
•December 18, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
All the horrors of prison life were experienced by hundreds of thousands of captives, Union and Confederate, during the Civil War. More »
•October 28, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
The U.S. Sanitary Commission assisted the hard-pressed Medical Department in providing aid and comfort to sick and wounded soldiers. More »
